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Could Reincarnation Explain Transgenderism and the “Transabled”?

This is just a hypothesis and might be absolute bullshit, but bear with me (unless you dismiss reincarnation altogether).

The thing is, due to personal experience I had gone back and forth on due to religion (Christianity denies the possibility as far as I know), I fully believe in reincarnation now. And because of that I’ve been reading research which highlighted many cases – some of them involving people having been of the opposite sex in the past but knowing remarkable, identifiable details about who they believed to be their past selves and the ways they had died. Some were children. Of course there is no proof they had actually been those people as opposed to having known those people in the past so I’m not saying there is definite proof of migrating from one sex to another between lives.

And I’m in no way saying I think all those who are confused about their gender and bodies are necessarily right about it (perhaps they are just going through a phase and might reconsider), especially nowadays when this sort of thing is encouraged on a mass scale. And I’m in no way saying that should that be the case they should try to butcher their current bodies trying to make them into something they are not (that can be very dangerous and is irreversible should they change their minds).

I do think though that it is possible for their motivation to be a past self (a past life).

The “transabled” puzzle me even more.

For someone who is able-bodied it is naturally a frightening thought to lose some of their physical abilities as life is guaranteed to be more difficult and restraining. What I usually read in these cases is that the person feels a body part or ability does not belong to them. Also, I logically deduce they are not afraid of facing their existence while not having said body part or ability – as if they had managed it in the past. This leads me to suspect they might have been disabled and are now mixed up about functioning in their current bodies. One lady wanted to be blind (and succeeded). To anyone who can see this is a terrifying prospect. Unless one has been blind before and can handle life as such, without fear.

Perhaps these people are trying to revert to their former selves.

Again, I am in no way saying physicians should indulge them by mutilating them. It is absolute craziness to “help” someone become impaired just because it feels more natural to them, regardless of what the cause might be. Surely healing the psychological/ emotional aspect and continuing to function in a healthier body would be much more beneficial.

I don’t know. It’s just an idea. Which I’m sure has been thrown out there before, though I haven’t come upon any material but haven’t exactly looked for it either.

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Maria, after reading about amputee wannabes many years ago, I came to the same conclusion. So many of the people depicted in the article seemed to be genuinely appalled by their intact bodies. They seemed to be completely out of phase with their bodies.

I would describe it this way. Those who lose a limb, within a single incarnation, experience phantom limb phenomenon — or, they have a deep sense that their limb is still there, even though it clearly isn’t.

Maybe losing a limb or an eye in a former incarnation and adjusting to it and having that become a very deep part of who they were, has a similar though opposite effect in their lives in the here and now. They have a a real limb or eye in their current lives and then have trouble making the necessary sensory adjustments.

I wish I had kept the article. It was morbidly fascinating. One poor soul chain sawed his arm off after futile attempts to have it removed surgically. The pain and suffering involved in the quest to rid the body of an appendage that they felt didn’t belong to them, was an indication, to me, that this wasn’t an extension of the zeal for tattooing or scarification.

This subject requires reflection about the true nature of consciousness — respecting the dictates of science, but understanding its limits.